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INDUSTRY NEWS AND ANALYSIS Up front In Depth West Virginia university program welcomes Wal-Mart pharmacy ALAINA SCOTT T he University of Charleston’s hensive pharmaceutical care. pharmacy school will become the Its hallmarks are a technologyﬁrst college in the nation to house driven curriculum and an ema Wal-Mart chain drug store. The store phasis on community pharmacy is expected to help students implement and rural health. Faculty, staff, the skills they’ve learned in the class- and students actively pursue an room in a real-life environment. agenda of community outreach, Wal-Mart is planning the opening advocacy, and activism. This infor sometime this fall. “This will be a tegrated curriculum develops Michelle Easton says the opening of the Wal-Mart fully functional, licensed pharmacy,” pharmacy practitioners who are pharmacy on campus is timely and pioneering. UC President Ed Welch said. “Our stu- able to effectively communicate dents will learn in a with diverse populations and real pharmacy how to work as integral members of a be a pharmacist.” healthcare delivery team. The universi- the practice of pharmacy to our stuWelch said the ty’s ﬁrst four-year doctoral students will dents within steps of their classrooms new pharmacy will graduate in May 2010. and labs,” Dr. Michelle R. Easton, inserve anyone with a Over the past year, UC officials terim dean at UC School of Pharmacy prescription, though spoke with independent pharmacies said. Without a doubt, this will set UC Ed Welch most customers will and chain drugstores about opening a apart from other schools of pharmacy be UC students and faculty, as well as pharmacy on campus, Welch said. Most in the country.” Kanawha City residents who live near small businesses balked at the proposal UC built space for a pharmacy on campus. Over-the-counter medications claiming it would be difﬁcult to turn a the ﬁrst ﬂoor of the pharmacy school. also will be available. “We are thrilled proﬁt at such a small facility while em- Wal-Mart will have to make only miWal-Mart chose UC and West Virginia ploying a full-time pharmacist, which nor renovations before the pharmacy as the site for this groundstate law requires. Even opens. “It was an empty space waiting breaking venture. It’s a Wal-Mart was skeptical for someone to ﬁll it,” Welch said. “We great initiative that brings at first. But company wanted our students to have some edu“Without a further distinction to the doubt, this will managers embraced the cation and training before we opened. School of Pharmacy and proposal after learn- It’s real learning, real performance.” set UC apart expands our service to the ing of UC’s pharmacy Wal-Mart plans to hire a pharmacist, from other community,” Welch said. school focuson placing who also will serve on UC’s adjunct facschools of “Everyone beneﬁts — the graduates at pharma- ulty. “Wal-Mart is proud to join with pharmacy in university, Wal-Mart, stucies in rural communi- the University of Charleston on this dents, our neighborhood ties — the same types of exciting pharmacy initiative convethe country. ” community, and our Applaces where Wal-Mart niently located on the university’s cam— Michelle R. Easton palachian region.” often opens its discount pus,” said John Agwunobi, senior vice Welch said the univerdepartment stores. president and president of Wal-Mart’s sity’s pharmacy program “The opening of this health and wellness division. “Through prides itself on preparWal-Mart pharmacy is the pharmacy, we will be able to beting pharmacists with the timely, pioneering, and ter serve the Appalachia region while knowledge and skills necan opportunity to bring supporting the educational needs of the essary to provide comprereal-life application of university.” 12 DRUG TOPICS N OV. 10, 2008 W W W.D R U GTO P I C S .C O M COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON http://WWW.DRUGTOPICS.COM

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